Where a cooper can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a cooper already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Coopers build barrels and related products made of segments of wood, like wooden buckets. They shape the wood, fit hoops around them, and shape the barrel to hold the product, which contemporarily is usually premium alcoholic beverages.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 42%
- Destinations
- 5each with a full record
- Within reach
- 0difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 36required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
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cooper is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a cooper already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.